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INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND
OF THE STUDY
The
effect of drug abuse on the academic performance of students in selected in
secondary school are the overtaking of drug by the students in secondary
school.
According
to the oxford advanced learners dictionary 6th edition said dry is
an illegal substance that some peoples e.g. smoking and injection e.t.c to give
them pleasant or exciting feelings. It is a substance used as a medicine used
in a medicine or used in a medicine. Why abuse is the use of something in a way
that is wrong or harmful, it is something that is unfair, cruel or violent
treatment of some body. It can also be the rude offensive remarks, usually made
when somebody is very angry. Therefore drug abuse is the use of drug above the
prescribed dosage and for the purpose other than the original prescription it
is the taking of drug without medical or professional advice or directions.
Drug on
its own is a chemical that influences or modifies the action of body’s own
chemistry in order words, it is any substance which when taken modifies the
body function. Unfortunately most people ignore such medical advice or
direction or direction by indulging in drug abuse or misuse.
Drug
abuse is also refers to the use of usually by self administration or any drug a
manner that deviate from approved medical pattern or with a given culture, in
which cause the use of medically prescribed drugs such as barbiturate to induce
sleep in permissible but the school administration of the amount of barbiturate
to induce Dulphoria in social situation would be abuse of drug. Drugs mainly
abused are, stimulants like Amphamine, sedative and Tranquilizers like
Barbiturates, valium, and mandrase Hauvelnogens Ukeheroin. These drugs do not
only have mild altering capacity but they may often be physically harmful.
Man has
displayed remarkable ingenuity in finding drugs, which produce actions on the
central nervous system. Primitive actions on the central nervous system.
Primitive people recognize the use of tobacco, sedative India hemp, cocoa
leaves e.t.c to provide pleasure relief of pain fatigue and hunger.
With
increasing civilization drug abuse has became a serious of problem among
student in some selected secondary school in Egor Local Government Area and the
society at large.
One
general notes drugs are abuses or misused because they altar the made of
behavior of the individual. It abuses positive effect.
There
this case of a J.S.S two (2) students in Adolor Secondary School which of
course led to the writer to carry out this research in some selected secondary
school in Ese Odo Local Government Area of Ondo State. Can be used to make
example of some popular effect of drug abuse. It was told that this very boy
was sick having some symptoms of weakness from home and he become restless when
he was a questioned be confirmed that he took five (5) Panadol from were this
mother keeps her drugs on her behalf resulted to his abnormal behavior. It was
the principal of the school with health teacher that now quickly took this
child to the hospital were he was given some medical treatment by the doctor
that helped to arrest the unusual situation and results of doctor confirmed
over dosage or drugs.
In a
few weeks later, (roughly month) there was another case of senior secondary
schools (S.S.S3) student of the same school. This boy was told, smoking Indian
hemp and started behaving in a most abnormal manner. Apart from that disturbing
the school with all kinds of shout and fighting with his classmates. The boy
reuse to ever recognize the presence of the authority as he boasted to the
principal that nothing can make him stop what he was doing.
It
therefore took the effect of the police and other member of staff of bundle the
boy away from the school.
Other
effect or drug could be mental problems, trembling hands damage of heart and
also profound sweating and headaches. All these side effects have along way to
affect the excellent performance of the children in school.
The
Lagos weekend (1987) revealed that the real problems was for as drug abuse is
concerned lies within individual family, unless parents themselves live up to
their family obligation the use of drugs abuse is far from near.
Also
the report further disclosed the cooperative effort of the family could off set
much bad behavior encountered by their children outside.
Parents
as well as guardians and teachers as character molders have a major role to
play in the general up bringing of a child. When they discover that a child is
already playing with drugs, they should make the child realize the effects of
taking drugs closer attention should be paid on the child’s welfare through
monitoring the child’s activities and the type of friends the child moves with
or keep with the family as launching base, the war on drug abuse could then be
entered to the large society with effective programme base upon accurate
information. It will require education of the public at large preventing camp
aligns and the willingness of all to face every aspect of drug abuse.
Therefore,
the excellent performance of children in school could be highly promoted if the
above listed measures ate taken to eradicate the effects of drug abuse in
schools and society at large.
STATEMENT
OF THE PROBLEM
Drug
abuse has been observed to be rampant among secondary school students in Ese
Odo Local Government Area of Ondo State.
PURPOSE OF
THE STUDY
What
motivated the researcher to write this project or topic is to investigate the
effect of drug abuse on the academic performance of students in selected
secondary school in Ese Odo Local Government Area of Ondo State.
The researcher will investigate the content of
following sub problems.
1. To find out if the students of these selected
secondary schools understand the meaning of drug abuse.
2. To ascertain the various methods of ways adopted by
families and teachers in controlling drug abuse.
3. To find out whether some unpleasant actions has
resulted from drug among the students of these schools.
4. To explain why students abuse drugs.
RESEARCH
QUESTIONS
In
other to achieved meaningful result, the following research questions have been
tentatively drawn as a measure to guide the researcher to carryout these
researches of the question formulated are;
1. Does drug abuse lead to truancy among secondary
school students?
2. Does drug abuse lead to students disobeying school
rules and regulations?
3. Will drug abuse cause or make parents of students
to stop financing their children education?
4. Drug abuse leads to sexual promiscuity among
students?
5. Do drug abuses make students to take deviant
behavior, which affects them and others?
6. Does drug abuse affect student’s academic
performance?
SIGNIFICANCE
OF THE STUDY
The
importance of carrying out this study is to carry out this is that it could
serve as reading text to many who want to gain deeper knowledge about causes,
effects and control of drug abuse.
The
study will encourage the people of Ese Odo Local Government Area of Ondo State,
to establish drug rehabilitation centered with the help of the ministry of
health drug and role parents and teachers play to prevent it abuse.
SCOPE OF
STUDY
This
project work covers five schools in Ese Odo Local Government Area of Ondo State.
these schools include:
- Ijaw National high Schol
- Arogbo City Academy
- Okhuban High School
- Ukparame Grammar School and
- Biagbiri Community Grammar School
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Friday 25 October 2013
EFFECT OF DRUG ABUSE AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOLS STUDENTS
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